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Stalker 2 sells over a million copies: 'This is just the start'
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I'm praying the successful sales gives the team the resources to fix the games many problems in coming patches. Unlike the author of this article I have a lot of issues with the current state of the game and find many design decisions to be not in the spirit of classic STALKER. Finally, the broken at best and absent at worst A-life (simulation of what NPCs and mutants are doing off screen for those unfamiliar) is a massive issue.
The bones of a great STALKER game are there, but it's quite a ways away from it in its current state.
Even with the bugs, I'm having a blast with the game. The positive is that the devs are acknowledging that it's got issues vs some other devs/publishers going on the offensive with broken games and doubling down saying everything is fine.
As long as they're not lying about the existence of A-life in the first place I'm hopeful. If the framework of it actually is there but not working I have hope they'll fix it.
Otherwise yes, I'm still enjoying having more STALKER after all these years. I've installed maybe a dozen mods and am now having a lot of fun with the game, but even so there are a lot of things missing and/or lacking. Even stuff like factions. You can't see the faction of corpses anymore when you loot them, and you can't keep track of your relations in your PDA. Aren't factions supposed to be important? Puzzling.
That's true, what mods are you running? I didn't even check?
I recommend going through what's trending on Nexus and seeing what appeals to you. Apart from fixing the timescale I installed some rebalancing mods that make enemies less bullet spongy and combat more lethal, as well as a mod attempting to improve A-life and stealth. Also installed all of Grok's mods. and this Medkit and Consumable rebalance.
Awesome, gonna have a look through these, did you have to restart?
No, but I would have if I had fewer hours played just to get a proper experience from the start and consequently less of an item stockpile etc. Grok's less loot in stashes won't apply retroactively for example.
Well that's good, I'm only a few hours in since I don't have a ton of time to game, thanks for the info though. Greatly appreciated.